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Quebec 1759 : The Battle that won Canada (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
Quebec 1759 The Battle that won Canada - Praeger Illustrated Military History Author:Stuart Reid "What a scene!" wrote Horace Walpole. "An army in the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!" In one short sharp exchange of fire Major-General James Wolfe's men tumbled the Marquis de Montcalm's French army into bloody ruin. Sir John Fortescue famo... more »usly described it as the "most perfect volley ever fired on a battlefield." In this book Stuart Reid details how one of the British Army's consummate professionals literally beat the King's enemies before breakfast and in so doing decided the fate of a continent.« less